Baby Sitting a Big Dog

This week I did a friend a favor and watched her black lab. My dogs loved having her over to play with and Eve (black Lab) would drop on her paws to play with Chloe and Ella. She was very well behaved but I realized that Labs shed. I didn't realize how much till I vacuumed and discovered all the hair that I had vacuumed up. Eve is a great dog but this little weekend has made me realize that I don't like I can ever live with a big dog. I'm afraid of them a little bit and my fears all came out this weekend. Good thing is that Eve goes home tomorrow and I know that my two dogs will be sad but it will be nice to get back to normal.

All the dogs playing

Chloe

Ella

Chloe

Eve

My Flower Garden

My flowers Garden:

I love Daisy's

My Garden

I decided to improve my garden skills this summer, and now my garden looks great. Here are some pictures:

My First full grown Strawberry!

Check out my Tomatoes

WOW, my pumpkin is getting so big, now for some blossoms!

My squash and zucchini look great as well, they even have nice big blossoms.

Service

Today I learned about service. It's all about the little things that we do for others. Serve your kids, neighbors, family and friends. We should all look for those service moments maybe even pray to be aware of those moments to serve and follow the savor.

Marking her territory

This last weekend, Chloe decided to mark her territory. This marking wasn't just in any particular spot. Let me tell you the story...

We went to visit a friend and her daughters had some friends over, this included 2 boys. Well Chloe got really chummy with these 2 boys and decided to pee on both of them. It wasn't much but it was a enough to embarrassed me, so we left. The boys just took off their sweatshirts and washed them. Chloe must have really liked them :)

It will be a while before we go visit that house again!!!!

Dog watching = new outfits

So I watched my sister dogs while she went out of town for the New Years. To say thank you she brought me the cutest outfits for the dogs. Check out the photos!

Playing with Paper Towels

Last week when I came home from work Ella and Chloe had pulled the paper towels down from the couch and preceded to pull the paper towels from the roll. When I got home there was paper everywhere so I decided to join in and take pictures before I cleaned it up. Ella and Chloe love to pull the paper apart and shred it.

Check out the pictures

Another chloe moment

For some reason my little Chloe seems to always find her self in some scrap or another. This week was the funniest story, Chloѐ somehow got all wrapped up in the rose bush. She was whimpering when I found her, she had tangled herself up in one of the vines that was hanging down to the ground. I realized that she was caught so I cut the rose bush, and then discovered that she had her hair rolled around the rose bush up around her ear and across her belly. I am betting that the rose bush caught her hair then in her struggle to get out of the thorns she rolled across it and ended up rolling her hair around the vine. It is similar to when a girl is round brushing her hair for the first time and she gets it caught in her hair and then you have to gently pull all the hair out of the brush.
Well, I had to cut the vines out of Chloѐ then unroll them out of her hair. She was sure glad to be free of that vine. She was so traumatized that I had to hold and comfort her to get over the shock. I think it was that she couldn't move when she was caught up in the rose bush.

Maker Fare '09'

Miss Orem Pageant

Lates news

ok, Its been way too long since I have updated my blog. I have sold all the puppies but one. They have all gone to great homes I am so happy that I was able to find good homes for them all. Prada is my last puppy and tho I want to be selfish and keep her I can't have 4 dogs in the house, so I must find a good home for her. I have decided to keep Chloe and she is so cute and such a diva. She wines to be picked up on the bed, she wines or makes her little dog noise to be picked up on the couch. She lifts one ear all the time and the right ear just stays floppy. She has the cutest face expressions and her tail is always waging. SOOO stickn' cute.

last weekend I went to San Fran to help promote the Yudu, Yourstory, Cricut, Cuddlebug from Provo Crafts. The Maker Fare was so much fun and i loved the unique atmosphere. I will add some photos soon. Our booth was so busy and I enjoyed talking with everyone. We won best of show and it was really exciting. I worked really hard and my feet hurt at the end of the weekend but it was totally worth it to see every ones face responding the the Yudu (silk screen maker).

A few weeks before that was our Miss Orem pageant. I was stress over that but in the end it all came together. I was really happy with the stage. I miss seeing the girls every week, but we now have a new Miss Orem and her name is Chelsey Ingersoll. It has been fun working with Krystal and she has become a little sister to me, she did a wonderful job for our city and we will miss our has our Miss Orem.

Slacker

I am a Slacker, it has been awhile since my last update. I've been so busy with new changes at work and wrapping up Miss Orem that I haven't had time to get caught up on my blogs. I know have a new goal to up date this blog every Sunday with something interesting that happened to me during the week.

Today Cooper (one of my puppies) found himself in front of the mirror. As I turned and caught his eye in the mirror, he looked so cute standing on his dog bed staring into the mirror and waving his paw, like he was waving at me. I desperately wanted a photo but when i moved the event was over and he was following me out the door. Oh well I will just have to try and reenact it later sometime.

The other evens that have kept me so busy at work, has been playing with the Yudu machine from Provo Craft. I have created some really cute items and I have a few more to do before all my projects are done and I can up load all the photos on my face book account.

The day is beautiful and my tulips are just gorgeous. Check out my photo.

Easter Sunday

Today I decided that I would make mine own Easter Dinner. So I grilled some chicken and steamed my asparagus and carrots, the potatoes turned out all right, but I didn't like the spices that were on them. So I won't do that again. Over all I was very happy with my cooking today.


A week ago I decideed to try and make tarts because I had this cut pan that I wanted to make something with. So I pulled out the cookbook and studies the recepies on how to make tarts, thank goodness for Cassie because I had a few questions that my cookbook couldn't answer. Cassie came to my resescure and helped me pull it all together. I made peach tarts and they turned out great. I will add the photo as soon I locate it.

puppy Updates

Ella and the puppies outside on the Grass Cooper loved the grass
Gucci & Prada
Gucci
Kimberly & Halen

Chloi & Halen Eddie, and Chloi Gucci
prada
Additional photos on the Shorkie blog . www.shorkiepuppies.blogspot.com

Puppy Playtime

Christensen New Puppy

Puppy News

Well, time sure flies by so fast. The puppies are now 4 weeks old, their eyes and ears are now open. They have been walking on their legs and for a while they were a little wobbly but now they are getting the hang of it. Eddie has been waging his tail, when ever the puppies get close to him in their cage. He thinks they want to play with them.

-Tonight was the cutest sight that I have witnessed yet. All the puppies were playing with each other and they were wrestling together. Prada is a little dare devil, she picks fights all the time cause she wants to play. Tonight everyone was trying to bite each other (they have no teeth, yet) and pawing each other- I wished I'd had my camera close. Here are new photos of all the puppies. AKA Kate now has a new home- and her name has been changed to Sassy. Chole also has a home. Now I have 4 left to find good homes.

Sassy
Qucci

Chole

Parda

Cooper

Halen (coloring is really brown)